The Japan Fund for Global Environment makes grants to non-profit organizations in Japan and developing countries for field projects in environmental conservation. Grants are for grass-roots projects and range from 500 thousand to 3 million JPY. Each non-Japanese applicant needs to have an agent in Japan to communicate and apply in Japanese language on behalf of the applicant. The application deadline is 02 December 2020.
Grants Program
Contents
Japan Fund for Global Environment (JFGE) provides grant to Non Governmental Organization (NGO)/Non Profit Organization (NPO) engaged in environmental activities.
If you consider applying for our grant program, please kindly follow the guidance page below carefully.
Eligibility Quiz
At first, if you are Non-Japanese organizations, please check this quiz!
1. Procedural Flow of JFGE operation
Application period for FY2021 is from November 5, 2020 to December 2, 2020.
Please apply within this period through internet. Otherwise the application cannot be reviewed nor examined.
Also be aware every document must be submitted in Japanese using official Japanese forms.
2. Guides and Forms
The JFGE Management Council deliberates and examines the applied projects, then decides on the projects to receive the grants along with the amount to be awarded. The grant is awarded only after performing the scheme of the JFGE Grant Policies and Procedures.
FY2021
Guide Book of Grant Request 2021 (Application period: Nov 5 to Dec 2, 2020)
A Guide to JFGE Grant Request (PDF 1.52MB)
SDGs guide (PDF 504KB)
Japanese Guide(PDF 7.38MB)
Grant Request Forms
Guide book of JFGE Grant Policies and Procedures 2019
Release in May 2021
Grant Project Final Report
Note: Every grantee is required to submit final report both in word(Part1-4) and excel(Part 5). For excel, please use either Part 5-1 or Part 5-2.
Release in March 2022
FY2020
Guide Book of Grant Request 2020 (Application period: November 5, 2019 to December 3, 2019)
Guide book of JFGE Grant Policies and Procedures 2020
Guide book of JFGE Grant Policies and Procedures 2020 (PDF 3.92MB)
Other forms
Report of Change in Application Particulars（Word 19KB）
Application for Change in Grant Project（Word 20KB）
Official Japanese forms
Notice:
- All Request forms for JFGE should to be written in Japanese.
- Japanese agent is necessary when applicants apply for JFGE Grant, so please find the agent by applicant. Fluent oral and written Japanese skill is needed to act as agent. The agent’s main role is to act as interpreter between grant recipient and JFGE, and transfer grant to the recipient.
3. Eligibility Quiz
Are you a nonprofit organization implementing environmental conservation activities in developing countries*?
developing countries* : countries which are listed as DAC ODA recipients ;
http://www.oecd.org/dac/financing-sustainable-development/development-finance-standards/DAC_List_ODA_Recipients2018to2020_flows_En.pdf
Yes
No
We are sorry, but you are not eligible for JFGE grant.
Do you have any agent (organization or individual) that has a bank account in Japan and can communicate with JFGE about the project both verbally and writtenly in Japanese?
Yes
No
We are sorry, but you are not eligible for JFGE grant.
Find an agent by yourself and come back here again.
Congratulations!
you are eligible for JFGE grant.
See our Grant program and detailed application procedure Here. (A Guide to JFGE Grant Program Request (PDF 1.52MB))
4. Grant Recipients
5. Examples of Granted Projects
- OISCA
- Nippon International Cooperation Community Development(NICCO)
- Desert Planting Volunteer Association
- Save the Children Centre
- PALLISHREE
- International EMECS Center
- Pesticide Action Network – Asia and the Pacific(PAN/AP)
- East Asia Environmental Information Express Manager
- Japanese Research Group on Cambodian Environment
- Biwa Scientific Round Table Society Secretariat
- Brown Bear Society
- The Association for Collecting and Recycling Resources
- Nanohana Project Network
